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an inflated calyx, with more or less broad wings at the angles, ¢.g., 
G. utriculosa, Linn. 
A series of photographs taken in Ceylon by Mr. T. C. Willis, 
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, was exhibited 
by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, F.LS., F.R.G.S. The 
photographs illustrated the cultivation of tea, coffee, cocoa, cinna- 
mon, &c., and represented the plants under cultivation in the field, 
and also their various flowers and fruit. 
25TH JaNnuARY, 1898. 
Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
Mr. 8. M. Wellwood exhibited a collection of plants from France 
(Departement du Rhéne)—most of the species included, and some 
of the genera, not being represented in the British Flora. 
Mr. Symers M. Macvicar exhibited the following three hepatics 
from Moidart, Inverness-shire :—(1) Lepidozia cupressina (Sw.), 
described by Taylor as Z. tumidula, which is stated in The London 
Catalogue of British Mosses and Hepatics, 2nd ed., 1881, as having 
been found in the Peninsular Province (Cornwall, &c.) and the 
Humber Province (Yorkshire), and in Ireland. No. 270 in 
Carrington and Pearson’s Hepatica Britannica Euxsiccata is a 
specimen of this plant from near Loch Maree, Ross-shire, gathered 
by Dr. Carrington in 1889. It is not rare in Moidart, and in Mr. 
Macvicar’s opinion should be found in other parts of the West Coast. 
It is easily distinguished from Lepidozia reptans, Linn., by being 
erect, very densely tufted, and cream-coloured. (2) Mastigophora 
Woodsti (Hook.), Nees, a very rare plant, first discovered in the 
south-west of Ireland. In Wallace’s Jsland Life, 2nd ed., 1892, 
it is referred to, on the authority of Mr. Mitten, as being “ found 
in Ireland and the Himalayas, but unknown in any part of 
Continental Europe.” In Zhe London Catalogue of British 
Mosses and Hepatics no English locality is given, but Province 17 
is mentioned for Scotland. Whether this refers to 174, Upper 
North Highland (Sutherland, Caithness), or to 178, Lower North 
Highland (Ross-shire), is left in doubt. Mr. Macvicar found it in 
Moidart in 1892, and again this year, in some quantity, among 
wet rocks in aravine at 1,200 feet altitude; also, but sparingly, at 
400 feet altitude. This handsome species grows in large con- 
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